The Freeman

A GREAT PEACE DINNER.

NEW YORK.-The peace dinner given by the Sunday New York World, Thomas McVeigh, Jr., editor of the metropolitan section, presiding, at the famous Hotel Astor, Thursday evening, January 4, was attended by representatives of almost every race on the face of the earth. The speakers at the banquet were Col. W. D'H. Washington, a great, great, great grand nephew of George Washington; Hon. W. Burke Cochran, Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo, Count Spaarwart, Prince Palealogue, Dr. J. E. Hoving, Mr. R. Ichinomiya, president of the New York branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank; Nassad Bey, John O'Hara Cosgrave, editor of Collier's Magazine, and formerly editor of Everybody's Magazine, and Hon. Charles W. Anderson, collector of Internal revenue for the Second District of New York City, who represented the Afro-American people.

Among the races represented at this peace dinner were Americans, Armenians, Australians, Arabians, Austrians, Bulgarians, British Hondurans, Chinese, Cubans, Canadians, Danes, Dutch, English, Egyptians, French, Fins, Greenlanders, Germans, Greeks, Hungarians, Hindoos, Hebrews, Hawaiians, Italians, Japanese, Mexicans, Poles, Swiss, Spaniards, Scandinavians, Swedes, Servians, Turks and quite a number of others as well.

Among the men present at the dinner in addition to the above, were the Persian consul-general, H. H. Topkyan; the Russian representative in New York City, Hon. Robert Adamson, secretary to Mayor Gaynor; Hon. Frederick R. Coudet, the famous corporation lawyer and a host of others of the highest importance in the life of New York City.

Collector Anderson had one of the special places of honor and his name appears third on the seating list of the peace banquet. The Afro-American people of New York City and of the country have especial reason to feel proud of their representative at this banquet. His address is reported to have been one of the oratorical gems of the evening.